外 wài
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noun
outside
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '外' 1; Unihan '外') -
preposition
out; outer
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Function Words
Notes: May be classified as a localizer because it can be appended to some nouns as a suffix to indicate location. For example, 户外 'outdoors.' (Guoyu '外' n 1; NCCED '外' 1; Sun 2006, loc. 903) -
adjective
external; outer
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '外' 1; NCCED '外' 1; Unihan '外') -
noun
foreign countries
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 外国 (Guoyu '外' n 2; Kroll 2015 '外' 4; NCCED '外' 2; Unihan '外') -
noun
exterior; outer surface
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '外' 2) -
noun
a remote place
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '外' 5) -
prefix
maternal side; wife's family members
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: For example, 外甥 'nephew' - son of mother's sister (Guoyu '外' adj 2; Kroll 2015 '外' 6; NCCED '外' 7) -
noun
husband
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Term used by the husband's wife (Kroll 2015 '外' 7) -
adjective
other
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Other than one's own; in the sense of 别的 or 其他 (Guoyu '外' adj 3; NCCED '外' 3) -
verb
to be extra; to be additional
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '外' v 2; NCCED '外' 4) -
adjective
unofficial; informal; exoteric
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: For example, 外号 'alias' and 外传 'unofficial biography' (Kroll 2015 '外' 3; NCCED '外' 5) -
noun
role of an old man
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Drama
Notes: In Chinese opera (Guoyu '外' n 3; NCCED '外' 8) -
verb
to drift apart; to become estranged
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 疏远 (Guoyu '外' v 1) -
verb
to betray; to forsake
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 背叛 (Guoyu '外' v 3) -
adjective
outside; exterior
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: bāhya, Japanese: ge (BCSD '外', p. 311; DJBT '外', p. 436; MW 'bāhya'; SH '外', p. 184)
Contained in
- 三界外 outside the three dharma realms
- 另外还包括(另外還包括) others include
- 外空 emptiness external to the body
- 染外物 defiled by outside objects
- 外种子(外種子) external seeds
- 外法 external objects [dharmas] ; outside teachings
- 六苦行外道 six ascetic schools
- 外护善知识(外護善知識) Good Dharma friends who give
- 尼干陀子外道(尼乾陀子外道) Nirgrantha-putra
- 外风界(外風界) external wind property
- 外方 outside; exterior ; outer region; exterior ; outside; bahis
- 似外境现(似外境現) it appears like external objects of perception
Also contained in
野外镜 、 河外星云 、 外邦人 、 外劳 、 外放 、 外国人 、 外挂程式 、 外向型 、 河外星系 、 外线 、 见外 、 外媒 、 英国海外领土 、 整形外科 、 外甥媳妇 、 外办 、 海外赤子 、 外籍劳工 、 场外应急 、 外向 、 世外桃源 、 在家靠父母，出外靠朋友 、 外刚内柔 、 外人 、 外甥女 、 意外 、 紫外线 、 体外 、 名为外臣 、 外型 、 外星人 、 外交官 、 红外光谱 、 局外 、 国外内 、 外孙子 、 外籍华人 、 外源 、 外长
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- Scroll 2 Commentary on the Hundred Treatise 百論疏 — count: 225
- Scroll 3 Commentary on the Hundred Treatise 百論疏 — count: 185
- Scroll 1 Commentary on the Hundred Treatise 百論疏 — count: 128
- Scroll 1 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 106
- Scroll 2 Śatakaśāstra (Hundred Treatise) 百論 — count: 92
- Scroll 2 Si Fen Lu Xingshi Chao Zi Chi Ji 四分律行事鈔資持記 — count: 92
- Scroll 1 Commentary on the Dvādaśanikāyaśāstra 十二門論疏 — count: 91
- Scroll 7 Notes on the Viṁśatikāvṛtti 成唯識論述記 — count: 87
- Scroll 1 Śatakaśāstra (Hundred Treatise) 百論 — count: 84
- Scroll 2 Notes on the Viṁśatikāvṛtti 成唯識論述記 — count: 84
Collocations
- 制外 (製外) 制外怨敵 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 22
- 外怨敌 (外怨敵) 制外怨敵 — Middle Length Discourses (Zhong Ahan Jing) 中阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 22
- 外色 (外色) 內無色想觀外色 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 8 — count: 18
- 观外 (觀外) 觀外身 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 17
- 外见 (外見) 內思色外見色 — Sutra on the Law of Ten Rewards in the Dirghagama (Chang Ahan Shi Bao Fa Jing) 長阿含十報法經, Scroll 2 — count: 13
- 山外 (山外) 善見山外次有阿抄波山 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 6 — count: 12
- 外身 (外身) 外身身觀 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 2 — count: 11
- 外敌 (外敵) 威德降外敵 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 1 — count: 5
- 外门 (外門) 忉利天外門 — Creation and Destruction of the World (Da Lou Tan Jing) 大樓炭經, Scroll 3 — count: 5
- 林外 (林外) 清風遠吹置於林外 — Long Discourses (Chang Ahan Jing) 長阿含經, Scroll 18 — count: 4